• Land and Housing Review
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.67-73
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• 2010

Method of protruding steel bar embedded in PHC pile for connecting with foundation plate is an intermediate form of fixed and hinged connection and has often been used in architectural structures such as apartment complex. However, mechanical properties of this method have not been proved and its construction process is not simple. In this study, therefore, by analyzing previous research and by considering ratio of steel bar and concrete in PHC pile, which is minimum reinforcement of rebar, the newly optimized method of reinforcing joint of PHC pile and foundation plate is suggested with respect to PHC pile type (PHC 450, PHC 500, and PHC 600). To assess mechanical properties (ultimate tensile and shear strength) of joint of PHC pile and foundation plate, full scale experimental tests are performed. As a result, all cases are satisfied with required design criteria and can be practically applied. Our results indicate that reduction of rebar reinforcement compared to previous method would lead cost saving in PHC pile construction.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.5-16
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• 2016

New PHC piles, where short steel pipes are attached to the pile toe, are developed to increase the base load capacity of bored pre-cast piles embedded in weathered rock. In this study, new bored pre-cast piles using the new PHC piles are installed at 7 test sites with different soil conditions, and static and dynamic pile load tests are performed to investigate quantitative characteristics on the base load capacity of new bored pre-cast piles. In addition, based on the static pile load test results, a new empirical equation for estimating the base load capacity of new bored pre-cast piles is proposed. A comparison between predicted and measured base load capacities shows that the proposed empirical equation produces conservative predictions for the new bored pre-cast piles. However, the existing design criterion significantly underestimates the base load capacity of new bored pre-cast piles.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1037-1042
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• 2018

The neuromorphic technology has been researched for decades, which learns and processes the information by imitating the human brain. The hardware implementations of neuromorphic systems are configured with highly parallel processing structures and a number of simple computational units. It can achieve high processing speed, low power consumption, and low hardware complexity. Recently, the interests of the neuromorphic technology for low power and small embedded systems have been increasing rapidly. To implement low-complexity hardware, it is necessary to reduce input data dimension without accuracy loss. This paper proposed a low-complexity artificial intelligent engine which consists of parallel neuron engines and a feature extractor. A artificial intelligent engine has a number of neuron engines and its controller to process multimodal sensor data. We verified the performance of the proposed neuron engine including the designed artificial intelligent engines, the feature extractor, and a Micro Controller Unit(MCU).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.826-832
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• 2004

A CMOS 8 bit folding and interpolating ADC for an embedded system inside VLSI is presented in this paper. This folding ADC uses the 2 stage architecture for improving of nonlinearity. repeating the folding and interpolating twice. At a proposed structure, a transistor differential pair operates on the second folder. A ADC with 2 stage architecture reduces the number of comparators and resisters. So it is possible to provide small chip size, low power consumption and high operating speed. The design technology is based on fully standard 0.25m double-Poly 2 metal n-well CMOS Process. The simulated Power consumption is 45mW with an applied voltage of 2.5V and sampling frequency of 250MHz. The INL and DNL are within <ㅆㄸㅌ>$\pm$0.2LSB, respectively. The SNDR is approximately 45dB for input frequency of 10MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.685-688
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• 2005

An efficient sustain driver and a useful reset circuit composition technique are proposed for plasma display panel drive. The proposed sustain driver uses a series resonance between an external inductor and a panel to recover the energy dissipated by a capacitive displacement current of PDP. It consists of four switching devices, an inductor, and external capacitors, which supply sustain voltage sources. Although the amplitude of an input voltage source is twice as high as that of conventional sustain drivers, average voltage stress imposed on power switching devices is nearly same in their values. Moreover, the input voltage source can be directly applied for the use of a reset voltage source. Owing to this scheme, the proposed sustain driver and the embedded reset circuit have a simple configuration. The operational principle and design example are given with theoretical analyses. The validity of the proposed drive system is verified through experiments using a prototype equipped with a 7.5-inch-diagonal AC plasma display panel.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2569-2578
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• 2009

Core-A microprocessor is the all-Korean product designed as 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor developed by KAIST and supported by the Industrial Property Office. This paper analyze Core-A microprocessor architecture and proposes efficient method to interface Core-A microprocessor with coprocessor. To verify proposed interfacing method, the AES cryptography processor that has 128-bit key and block size is used as a coprocessor. Coprocessor and AES are written in Verilog-HDL and verified using Modelsim simulator. It except AES module consists of about 3,743 gates and its maximum operating frequency is about 90Mhz under 0.35um CMOS technology. The proposed coprocessor interface architecture is efficiency to send data or to receive data from Core-A to coprocessor.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.415-420
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• 2010

This paper describes the design overview of shared file system $SANique^{TM}$ and analyzes the performance evaluation results of I/O intensive stress test based on various cluster file system architectures. Especially, we illustrate the performance analysis for the comparison results between the $SANique^{TM}$ and the Linux file system EXT3 system that is used to generally in Unix world. In order to perform our evaluation, Oracle 10g database system is operated on the top of cluster file system, and we developed the various kinds of testing tools which are compiled by ESQL/C from Oracle. Three types of architectures are used in this performance evaluation. Those are the cluster file system $SANique^{TM}$, EXT3 and the combined architecture of $SANique^{TM}$ and EXT3. In this paper, we present that the results of $SANique^{TM}$ outperforms other cluster file systems in the overhead for providing the true sharing over the connecting server nodes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.581-586
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• 2018

A common characteristic of many patients whose illness is getting worse is that they miss the treatment red flag. When high subjective symptoms appear or there is no strong pain, this problem arises because it is reluctant to visit the hospital. Gingivitis causes bleeding from the gums in the early and mid-term, and shows mild symptoms of tooth collapse. When treatment is done at this point, it shows a very high effect. However, when you miss the timing of treatment you will have a situation where you can't eat food by causing serious problems in the health of the gums and oral cavity. In this paper, the patient's periodontal image is photographed with a smartphone and transmitted in real time. This is done by the doctor in charge. Then, we propose a design of a patient management system that provides information on the current situation to the patient so as not to miss the timing of treatment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.116-120
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• 2008

Smart Camera provides intelligent vision functionalities which can interpret captured video, extract context-aware information and execute a necessary action in real-timeliness in addition to the functionality of network cameras which transmit the compressed acquired videos through networks. Intelligent vision algorithms demand tremendous computations so that real-time processing of computation of intelligent vision algorithms as well as compression and transmission of videos simultaneously is too much burden for a single CPU. Davinci processor of Texas Instruments is a popular ASSP(Application Specific Standard Product) which has dual core architecture of ARM core and DSP core and provides various I/O interfaces as well as networking interface and video acquiring interface necessary for developing digital video embedded applications. In this paper, we report the results of designing and implementing S/W for Davinci-based smart camera. We implement a face detection as an example of vision application and verify the implementation works well. In the future, for the development of a smart camera with more broad and real-time vision functionalities, it is necessary to study about more efficient vision application S/W architecture and optimization of vision algorithms on DSP core of Davichi processor.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.59 no.6
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• pp.109-125
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• 2017

This study aimed to develop a parcel-unit soil loss estimation tool embedded in Excel worksheet, USLExls, required for the design of contaminated farmland restoration project and to analyze the impact of the project carried out soil-filling work on soil loss. USLE method was adopted for the estimation of average annual soil loss in a parcel unit, and each erosivity factor in the USLE equation was defined through the review of previous studies. USLExls was implemented to allow an engineer to try out different combinations just by selecting one among the popular formulas by each factor at a combo box and to simply update parameters by using look-up tables. This study applied it to the estimation of soil loss before and after soil-filling work at Dong-a project area. The average annual soil loss after the project increased by about 2.4 times than before on average, and about 60 % of 291 parcels shifted to worse classes under the classification criteria proposed by Kwak (2005). Although average farmland steepness was lower thanks to land grading work, the soil loss increased because the inappropriate texture of the cover soil induced the soil erosion factor K to increase from 0.33 before to 0.78 after the soil-filling work. The results showed that the selection of cover soil for soil-filling work should be carefully considered in terms soil loss control and the estimation of change in soil loss should be mandatory in planning a contaminated farmland restoration project.